Television

I could write a whole blog on television today. Our newest girls love to watch TV, to play games with the TV on and listen to iPods with the TV on. The TV comes on first thing in the morning and if they had their way it would stay that way. It makes me wonder even more about what was life like for them before our family. They have cable down here with many channels that are from the USA to include Disney and Nickelodeon. After about a week here our natural kids finally tried the TV. Before that they didn’t even think there would be anything in English. The boys are happy because they found a station that is in English with Spanish subtitles, and it even carries their favorite show, CSI Miami.

After lunch yesterday (Thursday) Syd, Jack and I took a cab to a shopping center called Chippi Chappe It is a “gianormous” outdoor shopping mall with many little shops, food court and an Exito, which is the Latin Walmart. We mostly went to look, but we bought some cactus fruit and candy for gift bags at Rosita’s birthday party next Monday. You should see how armed the security guards are here, especially when making money drops at the mall from the armored car.

Last night the news cameras turned on us. We were interviewed by a local reporter about our adoption. They asked questions about why adoption, why older, how long did we wait, would we do it again, how is it going… I should have given them the address to the blog, right? I was asked to answer their questions in Spanish since I know a tiny bit, but Doug got the harder questions since our interpreter helped him.

Some of kids swam yesterday in spite of rain and temperatures in the low 70’s, 2 of them swam twice. Today the weather is warm and sunny and we are going to the water park.